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UNINA9910461137203321 |
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Autore |
Gonda Jeffrey D. |
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Titolo |
Unjust deeds : the restrictive covenant cases and the making of the civil rights movement / / Jeffrey D. Gonda |
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Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-2546-6 |
1-4696-2547-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Collana |
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Justice, Power, and Politics |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Discrimination in housing - Law and legislation - United States |
Real covenants - United States |
African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral -Yale University, 2012) issued under title: Home front. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Covenants: race and housing in the 1940s -- Courtrooms : local lawyers and legal activism -- The NAACP : national leadership and housing desegregation -- To Washington : the Department of Justice and the Supreme Court -- Failures and foundations: the covenant cases and postwar black freedom struggles. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Unjust Deeds' explores the history of an often overlooked civil rights milestone: the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). In a group of cases from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., six African American families challenged the hardening boundaries of the nation's racial ghettos as they fought desperately to hold onto their homes. Aided by the NAACP and local civil rights attorneys, they attacked the legal legitimacy of racial restrictive covenants, one of the most pervasive instruments of residential segregation in the 1940s. Their campaign culminated in a unanimous Supreme Court victory that left the struggle for justice under the law forever transformed. 'Unjust Deeds' explores the origins |
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